Advanced Industrials and Manufacturing

/Overview

We help industrial and manufacturing companies stay compliant, resolve disputes, and make smart business decisions in a complex policy and trade environment.

As manufacturers recalibrate global operations to bolster supply chain resilience and pursue reshoring strategies, many are simultaneously accelerating investments in sustainable technologies and low-carbon processes. These priorities are informing production models, requiring businesses to balance operational agility with environmental commitments.

Our attorneys work with clients in the advanced industrials and manufacturing sector—from global manufacturers and innovators to suppliers and logistics providers. Using an integrated approach, we provide comprehensive counsel on:

• Transactional matters
• Regulatory and compliance
• Dispute resolution
• Cutting-edge developments like automation, artificial intelligence, and sustainable manufacturing

Our team understands the challenges facing the industry, from navigating supply chain disruptions and workforce shifts, to capitalizing on technological innovations and domestic production incentives. We deliver tailored solutions that enhance operational efficiency, reduce risk, and support strategic growth amidst fluctuating trade policies. Wherever your business is in the value chain, our team is here to help you achieve your goals in a dynamic industrial landscape. 

/Our Focus

Automotive, Autonomous, and Electric Vehicles: As the automotive sector embraces electrification and automated vehicles, we provide legal counsel that enables both innovation and compliance. We advise clients on transactions, artificial intelligence, privacy and data protection, regulatory matters and labor and employment matters.

Chemicals and Coatings: We guide clients in this heavily regulated sector through complex compliance obligations while driving innovation. Our services include environmental compliance, intellectual property, corporate transactions, and litigation related to product safety and liability.

Energy: Energy policy fluctuations create new opportunities and challenges for traditional and renewable energy manufacturers and suppliers. We provide sophisticated legal advice on project financing, regulatory compliance, commercial disputes, investigations, project financing, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) matters, and ESG integration and frequently handle related disputes.

Equipment and Machinery: We advise on equipment leasing and financing, supply chain management, IP protection, and cross-border transactions, supporting our clients as they pursue automation and advanced manufacturing.

Transportation and Logistics: We help clients manage the complexities of global supply chains and transportation systems with targeted legal strategies. We counsel clients on labor matters, customs laws, toxic exposure claims, public finance bonds, sales, and M&A.

/Representative Experience

• Wind energy developers, cellular telecommunications companies, and commercial enterprises: Represent a variety of clients in land-use litigation, including a federal court challenge to a local moratorium on the siting of a wind energy farm and state-court despites involving the denial and threatened denial of zoning-related permits
• AAV gene therapy and manufacturing company: Provide intellectual property counseling to the AAV gene therapy and manufacturing company regarding research, technology development and collaboration, patent prosecution, and licensing
• Large US distributor of wireless devices and related products: Provide counsel in various commercial litigation and labor and employment matters 
• Global manufacturer of scientific instruments and analytical solutions: Provide counsel in a wide range of matters, including M&A and venture capital investments, financing transactions, government investigations, litigation and commercial disputes, export controls and sanctions compliance, commercial agreements, intellectual property, labor and employment, securities law compliance and corporate governance, and other general corporate matters
• New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (TBTA): Serve as bond counsel to the MTA (subway, bus, and commuter railroads) and TBTA (nine bridges and tunnels) for decades in connection with tens of billions of dollars in bonds and notes. Recognized as “Northeast Deal of the Year” 2021 by The Bond Buyer for our role as Co-Bond Counsel to the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority in their $1.24 billion payroll mobility tax senior lien deal for MTA Bridges and Tunnels. This marked the first new financing credit for the MTA’s transit and commuter capital program since its 2002 restructuring and marked the first long-term issuance under the security.
• Freight transportation: Represent manufacturer of commercial vehicles and related technology in various litigation in California regarding labor and employment matters and commercial issues, including industrial warehousing 
• Scientific Applications & Research Associates (SARA), Inc.: an employee-owned company that specializes in creating custom solutions for complex problems in the defense and homeland security industry—in patent litigation matters 
• Perimeter Solutions, Inc.: Represent a publicly traded global leader in the development and manufacture of fire retardants and firefighting foam concentrates, in a variety of matters including multiple transactions in the specialty chemicals, aerospace, and industrial services sectors 
• Komatsu America Corporation: Represent a global leader in heavy equipment in connection with the acquisition of a dealership group offering sales, rental, service, and repair business located in the Southwestern US, focusing on mining and construction equipment
• Solenis: Represent an American manufacturer of specialty chemicals and a portfolio company of Platinum Equity, in the acquisitions of Predictive Food Solutions and Lilleborg
• Multinational automobile manufacturers: Variety of matters spanning transactional and general corporate, AI issues, privacy, commercial lit, and pre-litigation matters 
• Global truck manufacturer: Managing NY-based litigation for client. Defending over 500 cases for the client in the NY metropolitan area. Cases involve asbestos, product liability, fraud, and RICO claims. Obtained over 100 dismissals 
• Global vehicle manufacturer: Broad range of transactional matters, including environmental and tax credit purchases, technology transactions, data sharing and privacy related agreements, sponsorships, and dealer agreements.